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Music is passion. It is fire and splendour and vital, visceral life. It lives and breathes and sings out the joys and heartbreaks of humanity and it rages against whatever passing establishment happens to fall into its firing line. At its finest, it seethes and it surges and it … Read on
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Brown Brogues
‘The band hail from Manchester and their woozy feedback driven, off kilter, garage rock is like a clanking adrenalised version of the early Cramps and very early Pussy Galore. The band are pure garage rock but with some great lo-fi tunes, the songs are pop classics melted … Read on
THOUGHT FORMS
WIRED TO FOLLOW
THE BELMEZ FACES
& GNOD DJs
10TH JULY, WEDNESDAY
Thought Forms started making music together in Wiltshire back in Spring 2004 and 2013 sees the release of their second album for Invada Records, “Ghost Mountain”.
It takes all of the first … Read on
Video Jam and Baptists & Bootleggers present Dieter Moebius and Ex-Easter Island Head.
Manchester’s film and music night Video Jam collaborates with record label and publishers of art and literature, Baptists & Bootleggers for the first time. Working together to bring legendary Komische musician Dieter Moebius and avant
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Part of Travelling Band’s Shut the Far Cupboard series:
GYMNAST
Gymnast are a Manchester-based duo who have been playing live since July 2012. Members Cathy Wilcock (lead vocals, guitar) and Chris Lyon (synth, cello, guitar, backing vocals, programming) previously wrote and performed together as part of … Read on
Nancy Elizabeth’s new album, Dancing, has emerged incrementally since the release of its predecessor, Wrought Iron, in 2009. Seeking to repair and retreat after an intense period of travel and personal flux, Nancy created a bower in her tiny Manchester flat, with a piano at the centre, guitars … Read on
AN ART BASED EXPERIMENTAL NIGHT, LOCATED IN MANCHESTER’S WHALLEY RANGE.
Live Bands -
DIE HEXEN
BERNARD+EDITH
SAD EYES
OBSIDIAN POND!
Also featuring a small stall with clothing from WESTWOLF
And a showcase of projections of Paintings by Artist John Carroll
DIE HEXEN
Hauntingly minimal gothic-electronic textures and … Read on
We’re delighted to welcome back Hey! Manchester favourite David Thomas Broughton, plus Rachael Dadd and Ichi.
David Thomas Broughton occupies a contentious position, divides opinion, unsettles, is self-consciously clumsy, hilarious, beautiful but above all memorable. You’ve never seen anything like it before. Walls of noise and layers of beauty … Read on
DOTS & LOOPS 7TH BIRTHDAY SPECIAL
with
SONIC BOOM (SPACEMEN 3 / SPECTRUM) – 2 HOUR DJ SET
As well as countless releases with Spacemen 3, Spectrum, E.A.R., Stereolab, Silver Apples, Julie’s Haircut etc… Sonic has recently been seen touring with the likes of Kurt Vile and My Bloody … Read on
ITS JUNE AND THE RIFFERY CANNOT BE STOPPED.
This month we at THMI have the following musical genii, in the form of:
VODUN -
StonerPunkVoodoom, That kind of describes the sound, but really doesnt do it quite as much justice as we’d like. Think Kyuss in … Read on
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